I won't say they'll force you but if you don't share they'll likely admit you to the hospital. Ethically even just telling them you have plans and are suicidal should earn you a trip to the hospital. So either way it really winds up the same. This is just my personal experience. I've learned that once I'm seriously suicidal I call my therapist who makes the arrangements so I don't have to go through the evaluation process and it saves time. If you're really suicidal please get help. Hospitals aren't such bad places. You can learn a lot about yourself.

they cant force u to say anything but i got a feeling u want them to make u tell them so why dont u? tell them everything and see if they can help any

In my experience they really want to know your plans, but they will only ask a few times if you don't want to tell them. You can just go to the ER and mention the word "suicide" and they take it very seriously. Being in the hospital can help a LOT. It's worth giving it a try. Good luck - this is a tough thing to get through, but it can be done.

I doubt that they can force you to tell them anything, but they may work hard to get you to talk about it. They are bound to take certain actions if they believe that you are a serious threat to yourself or others.

Can you focus on what is bothering you and solutions to those issues when you talk to them?

Gentle hugs

I admitted that to my counselor 5 yrs ago and she was so worried about me she had me admitted to hospital. I'm glad she did though! Those were one of the best 3 days I had in a long time. I didn't even have to tell her my plan she just heard I want to kill myself and that was it.

Usually, mentioning suicide is the red flag that gets you admitted to a hospital. My unsuccessful attempt almost left me as a vegetable. I am not advocating being successful. Every day when i experience something beautiful I think "I cold have missed that".

How wonderful that you came thru that with such a wonderful attitude djchurn!

Now that you have written the plans out I suggest you read them. But please DO NOT go through with it. Read them and ask yourself why you want to do it. Hopefully you realize that you need help, that you deserve help.

I agree with the others, you should get some help and the hospital seems to be the best option. I personally have never told anyone about my plans and my letters but I have kept 3 letters and one plan. I have read them over and over again and about half way through it I start to cry. Thats when I wonder why I feel that way, why I want to die and realize that I need to get help. I haven't been able to find any because my family doesn't know anything and they will most likely be in denial if I tell them. I need help and soon enough I'll be able to get it. I suggest, like everyone has already suggested, to go to the hospital, I've heard good things about people going when they are feeling that way. They come out stronger and wanting to fight. Take a chance and get the help you deserve.

Please, you have take the first step, you reached out to someone here, now, go one step further. If you don't feel up to or safe going out, all 211, they will know what to do. We care, help is here Sweetie. You may not feel like you can get our of this terrible place that you are in, but you will- I promise you! I JUST got my computer back, but I will check on you. Please call, please keep reaching out- you ARE worth it! We LOVE you! xoxoLyn

oh hey I had 2 plans too. 1 was to drive off the cliffs at torah. I figured that'd be quite pretty on the way down. The other was to shoot myself in the head.

We all have plans. We all know how we'd do it.

The question is: will we? Are we really, when push actually comes to shove,... that ... bloody ...


dumb?

you get one life. One. Depression doesn't have to get you down. LOL OMG that was funny. but it doesnt.

you don't have to be sucked in by it. You are allowed to say to yourself :bugger, here come the bloody chemicals again, batten down the hatches, we're in for a big one' and then just use damage control for the week or so that you have it... and the come out and view the wreckage.

After a few years you get good at it. You don't have any wreckage. When you stop having wreckage the depression reduces because the powerlessness reduces.

Depression is actually all about perceived powerlessness. I say perceived because we lock ourselves into things through our own sheer stupidity. Where our 'moral rules' won't allow us to live in a way that means we actually win. Well bugger that. Evolve your morality to fit reality. Adapt.

Watch zombie movies. I swear they are the best thing for depression. Refuse to be powerless. And just remember: you get the one life. Just the one. You can waste a lot of it stuck in a box. But you won't get any of it back.

Your life is very important. Thanks for reaching out on this site. If you're having suicidal ideas and can talk through it with your therapist great. If you actually have a plan and seriously want to do it and don't care anymore, then go to the ER and get yourself admitted. Or tell everything to your therapist and let him or her get you admitted. You will get through this.

Six days later and all I can say is that I am still SUICIDAL ...

I still don't really care and have completely lost the will to live...

And...I have an appointment with my therapist on Thursday...

Okay folks, that.is.all. for now...talk to y'all later.

Well?

You say "well?" like there's a reply.

The reality is that if you were really suicidal you'd be dead. You're not dead, therefore you do actually want to live. You're just discouraged.

Suicidal thoughts came to me, full time, for over a year. Think about it. A year. I was lucky. This was the second time this had happened to me and on the first go round I had learned that I don't have to believe what I'm being told. Brain is thick. If brain can't find a way out of the hole I'm in, brain, so intelligent that it is, will come up with a solution anyway. Kill self.

That's what brains do if you don't beat them regular. they say 'kill yourself' when they can't think of any other way of solving their problems.

So you can withstand suicidal feelings. Now that you know you actually do want to live, you can say 'what is this problem that my brain can't find a solution to?"

And look around at your life. How's your life? What's it doing? What's intolerable to you that you cannot figure out how to change?

Change it! Fix it. And then see how suicidal you are. :)

Glad to hear you are willing to see your herapist. Please stay in touch and let us know how it's going.

I was at on time for a long time susidele ......I thought of a cupple ways ...of doing it ...I attempted it once but was intercepted .....and relized that my mind was not in the right place ....when I snaped out of it ...and did not try that again ...........some time later on ..I had to stop driving because I would find my self going for the ditch ......and get my self back on the road ........I stoped driving for six months ...........I did end up in the hospital ......but told them. I ..thought a lot of ..not wanting to be here .........not wanting to live .......but told them I wouldent do anything about it ......but I was shutting dowen ........not talking not eating not looking at people ...I couldent do those things .i was lousing my self ...........going into the hospital was the best thing that could of happened to me ..I was in there for two months ..but this was ..a very long time .....ago .......they gave .me electric schlock treatment to get me back ..it was a life saver ............................you can come back from ware you are ........you need to go get the help you need ..and that means ..going to the hospital .....they can't forse you to say anything .....about ...your plans of how you plan to comit suside ......just if they know you think about it ...will be enough .....to get you in .......and they don't keep people in hospital in as long as they use to ..now .....but you will be able to get to talk to a phicatrist and get on some meds that will help you ...it will take time to get ..the meds .....the right ones for you ............take very good care of your self .......if I had to go into the hospital again ..and get ECT ....I would ..not think twice .....God bless